Changes in the workplace over the last few decades can be summed up as a(n) Multiple Choice effort to eliminate lower-skilled jobs in favor of a growing technocracy. tendency to encourage early retirement so as to clear the way for younger workers. move away from physical, industrial jobs toward knowledge work, service work, and gig work. trend toward the hiring of overqualified foreign workers at the expense of American jobs. increase in physical and industrial jobs at the expense of knowledge work and service work